World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local (2010)

3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Original papers are invited to consider subject areas including, but not limited to, the following themes:

· Marketing in the management of World Heritage Sites;

· The pragmatics of managing tourists;

· Financing World Heritage;

· Community involvement in Site management;

· Relations between intangible cultural heritage and Site management;

· The role of the private tourism sector;

· The nature of tourist experience and behaviour at World Heritage Sites;

· Shaping local, regional and national identities through Site inscription;

· Issues of governance and transnational regulation;

· Legal rights and notions of ‘ownership’;

· The management of World Heritage ‘values’;

· The geo-politics of inclusion and exclusion;

· Methods of Site evaluation;

· Managing spiritual values and biodiversity;

· The role of UNESCO and the political economies of designation.

Please submit your 500 words abstract (in French or English) including a title and full contact details as an electronic file to Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas (Maria.Gravari-Barbas@univ-paris1.fr) or Laurent Bourdeau (laurent.bourdeau@fsa.ulaval.ca) as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2009.

Publication opportunity:

Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. Best papers from the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.

Website: http://www.tourism-culture.com/news_3.html

Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century

November 9 - 13, 2009

International workshop to take place over five days at the campuses of UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The public portion of the workshop will be held at UMass Amherst on November 9-10. There will then be a roundtable for invited participants and the Bard campus community on November 12-13.

"Throughout the world, historic districts, archaeological sites, religious monuments, ethnic traditions, and traditional customs—once cherished as timeless symbols of collective identity and continuity—have increasingly become the targets of violence and a source of discord. The destruction of the Mostar Bridge in Sarajevo, the obliteration of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the battle between Hindus and Muslims for the site of Ayodhya in India, the controversies over the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif in Jerusalem, and the looting of the Baghdad Museum are but a few recent examples of significant damage to cultural heritage in times of ethnic and religious conflict and state-to-state war.

Yet while the term “heritage in conflict” has been primarily associated with armed or violent conflicts, it should also be linked to the wider issues of conflicting interpretations or conflicting domains of intangible heritage that may endure even after violent conflict has ceased.

It has become increasingly clear in the 21st century that people, working in an increasingly multicultural environment, must be able to cope more effectively with contested heritage in city streets and rural regions—as well as on the battlefield. We must examine and understand the role of interpretation—not merely as the dissemination of objective facts about the past—but as a public means of reflection about the contemporary cultural significance of tangible and intangible heritage and the modern identities that are based on it. We should reexamine the processes of management, presentation, and heritage commemoration to assess their effectiveness in a world that is not made up of homogeneous, territorially discrete populations, with a single historical perspective, but a dynamically evolving mosaic of immigrant and diasporic communities, ethnic groups, and new nations living together in a globalized world."

Website: http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/workshop.html

ICCROM Conservation Series

PDFs: ICCROM Conservation Series

The ICCROM Conservation Series (ICS) is now available in electronic format.

http://www.iccrom.org/eng/02info_en/02_04pdf-pubs_en.shtml

ATHAR - documentation of heritage sites in the Arab Region

ATHAR - documentation of heritage sites in the Arab Region

Applications are now open for the ATHAR 2009 course on 'documentation of heritage sites in the Arab Region', to be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates from 3 - 14 January 2010.

Application deadline: 5 October 2009

http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2010_01AtharUAE_en.shtml

ATHAR-MOSAIKON: Conservation and Management of Mosaics on Archaeological Sites

ATHAR-MOSAIKON: conservation and management of mosaics on archaeological sites

Applications are now open for the ATHAR-MOSAIKON course on 'conservation and management of mosaics on Archaeological sites', to be held in Tyre, Lebanon from 3-21 May 2010.

Application deadline: 30 November 2009

http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2010_05AtharLBN_en.shtml

Archaeology of Contemporary Europe (ACE) project questionnaire

The Archaeology Of Contemporary Europe (ACE) project, http://www.ace-archaeology.eu/, funded by European Union Culture Programme, is a wide ranging project researching many aspects of professional archaeological practice in a number of European countries. As part of this process ACE have produced a questionnaire which gives archaeologists the opportunity to let colleagues out with the UK know how they work, how their organisations are structured and what changes might have occurred in their practice in the last year or so.

If you are interested in participating in this phase of the project by completing a questionnaire please let the ADS know(sj523@york.ac.uk) and they will send out a questionnaire to you (in MS Word format) in the next week or two. Although the questionnaire is quite short, it asks some detailed questions relating to the number of archaeologists in an organisation, how it is funded and how many and what type of archaeological interventions it has been involved with. The ACE project is particularly interested in responses from archaeological contractors, local authority and university archaeologists.

HERITAGE 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development

The Green Lines Institute is organizing the international event 'HERITAGE 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development', that will be held at the City of Evora, Portugal, from 22 to 26 June 2010.

Submission of Abstracts is open until 30 November 2009.

Papers addressing the following topics are welcome:

Heritage and Governance for Development, Heritage and Education Policies, Heritage and Culture, Heritage and Economics, Heritage and Environment, and Heritage and Society .

For further detailed information, please visit the conference Website at http://www.heritage2010.greenlines-institute.org .

For further information on the Scientific Committee, please visit http://heritage2010.greenlines-institute.org/H2010website/com_scientific.html.

LSE Arts and Thames & Hudson 60th anniversary discussion

The Museum of the 21st Century

Date: Tuesday 7 July 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Neil MacGregor, Nicholas Serota
Chair: John Wilson

In this 60th anniversary year of publishers Thames & Hudson, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, and Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, will be in conversation exploring the various roles of national, and other, collections in the 21st century. This rare joint appearance by two of today's most influential figures in the international world of arts and culture promises to provide a stimulating discussion touching on topics of contemporary global significance.

For information on how to obtain an entry ticket to this free event go to:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2009/20090311t1917z001.htm

Commodifying the Revolution

Here's an interesting article from Counterpunch, about the struggle by indigenous groups in Mexico to gain some control of heritage sites in their region: http://www.counterpunch.org/ross02172009.html

India to improve heritage management

The Indian government is to set up a National Commission for Heritage Sites, which will maintain a national register of heritage sites based on the UK model (article in The Hindu). This will be a positive step towards better preservation of the countless buildings and sites of historical importance in the country, many of which are under constant threat of damage or demolition.